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ReviewJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2024

Deciphering macronutrient information about human milk.

Mandy B Belfort, Lisa Stellwagen, Krysten North, Sharon Unger, Deborah L O'Connor, Maryanne T Perrin

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Review in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Mandy B BelfortDepartment of Pediatrics, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8799-3313
Lisa StellwagenDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, San Diego, CA, USA.
Krysten NorthDepartment of Pediatrics, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9283-4413
Sharon UngerIWK Health, and Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8091-5742
Deborah L O'ConnorDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, and the Department of Pediatrics, Sinai Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Maryanne T PerrinDepartment of Nutrition, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA. mtperrin@uncg.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1645-8310

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinicians caring for small, vulnerable newborns increasingly have access to specific nutritional information about human milk through point-of-care analyzers and labeled products. It is critical for clinicians to recognize that there is considerable variability in how human milk nutritional data are derived and reported, which impacts the interpretation of nutritional values, comparison of nutritional data between products, and ultimately the ability to deliver optimal nutritional care. This article distills key issues that will enable clinicians to interpret human milk nutritional labels/analysis more effectively, ultimately allowing them to make better decisions about dietary strategies. We aim to empower clinicians to ask questions about milk sampling techniques, reported nutrient values, analysis techniques, and milk bank pooling practices. This knowledge can put human milk nutrient values in context, improve clinical care, and help to drive more rigorous research for exploring the impact of human milk feeding on infant outcomes.

Indexed as

Milk, HumanNutrientsNutritive ValueFood LabelingHumansInfant, NewbornInfant Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaMilk BanksNutrients

Identifiers

PMID38879586
PMCPMC11379624

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